Good question about if he’d answer the electrocution phone while in alert status. Maybe IOI should bring it back so I can test out this question?
Yeah, with the length of the cutscene - which I can’t seem to skip - it’d be total guesswork figuring out the timing to get Vincent to pick up the Remote Taser and electrocuting him with it, if it’s even possible. And not just the cutscene, but also escaping and getting to Jeremy to take his outfit. Vincent unfortunately won’t pick up the taser after he goes into alert status, or else this contract would’ve been much easier.
@Urben - I tried again to use your suggestion for the Sieker method. And Vincent just disappeared completely from the map after I triggered the core meltdown. See if you can spot him in this screenshot:
First is @GlogolZ’s The Thief. The flow of the target and the retrieval of the Ivory White was fun! This run isn’t as efficient but it was a fun run to do.
Victory is mine! I found another way to keep Vincent on the roof so I wouldn’t have to go back inside the ICA Data Facility. (Spoiler: It involves dumping half the ICA armory in his path)
I didn’t really save any time doing it this way over my previous run (only a minute faster), but this way should be easily reproducible and not relying on random chance of where Vincent is going to join the patrolling guards after initiating the core meltdown.
@Urben, are you sure there’s no need to escalate this any further? I discovered some things doing my runs, and I think your contract needs a MK II update. I present:
I just made the greatest contract in the history of Hitman Forum, that’s all.
After the core meltdown is initiated, every NPC tagged as a Facility Guard will all change into their masked variants, even if they’re not in the facility. In my last run, that’s why Vincent now has on a mask, even though he’s on the roof busy picking up all my dropped weapons. As you utilized in your original contract, this also applies to Jeremy Bolt, even though he’s been fired and is on the platform.
But I discovered that even if Jeremy’s dead body is stripped of his original outfit, his dead naked body will still spawn into a masked outfit after the core meltdown is initiated. And I thought to myself this has to be used somehow in a contract. So here we are!
Hi everyone! Part six is available for you to play now! This contract takes you to the sunny place of Marrakesh, where you are tasked with two targets and the lovely secondary objective!
Queen’s Gambit Episode VI - Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend Contract ID: 3-06-0591910-02
The evacuation plans should be easy to intertwine in your route if you played Marrakesh a couple of times before. There is a handful of challenges you could do with this contract as always, so take a look if you want to!
Assasination
Elder Scrolled: Eliminate both targets with the battle axe. Royal Flush: Eliminate both targets in the same bathroom. Blinding Light: Eliminate both targets from the lamp store rooftop. Tourist Detracted: Poison Ellinor Westrup while she’s sampling food. Highly Inflammable: Kill Ellinor Westrup in a scooter explosion. A Croc and a Hard Place: Push Ellinor Westrup into a canal. Hookah on a Feeling: Poison Ellinor Westrup’s hookah pipe. Serves You Right: Eliminate Khair al din Yusef Sarkis as a waiter. F For Effort: Drop the cafe sign on Khair al din Yusef Sarkis. Strong Smell: Eliminate Khair al din Yusef Sarkis while she’s sampling food. Away From It All: Strangle Khair al din Yusef Sarkis while she’s at the gate. Boom Goes the Diamond: Kill Khair al din Yusef Sarkis in a propane explosion.
Discovery/Feats
Just Protocol: Retrieve the evacuation plans. Out of My Way: Pacify Hilda Berg. Can’t Touch This: Sedate Ellinor Westrup without touching her. Members Only: Enter the courtyard lounge. Keep Your Friends Close…: Pacify all three members of Khair’s group. …and Your Enemies Closer: Pacify two soldiers after each target reports a weapon to them.
Targets
The Fatale: Eliminate Ellinor Westrup. The Primadonna: Eliminate Khair al din Yusef Sarkis.
Always fun to see runs of my contracts where someone takes a different approach than I did. I actually avoided KOing anyone in my route, and isolated Blanco by tossing a suitcase or taser into his area; the weapons crate he heads to is actually outside the villa, by the sniper spot. Also I hadn’t spotted that hatchet there, I was using the one in the boathouse.
After several attempts and practice from doing “The Jeremy Blackout Privilege”, I actually managed to get SA on this contract in only 45 minutes. But I couldn’t do so without knocking out a whole bunch of Facility Guards.
I really don’t think IOI intended people to actually be making contracts after initiating the core meltdown. I think the fact that we can is an oversight on IOI’s part. All the Facility Guards are randomized on their searching patrol routes, making developing a consistent strategy impossible. That breaks one of the fundamental rules of a Hitman game - inconsistent and unpredictable NPCs. You have to improvise each run to track down the three masked facility guards.
Huiqing Wen is the only one that’s close to consistent, in that he spawns in the same spot. Which way he takes off from there is slightly different each time. Martin Brooke and Danny Ellington spawn in the same general area, but their patrol paths are different each time.
It appears that there are set routes for the masked Facility Guards to follow, but which guard gets assigned to which route is what’s random every playthrough. It’d be nice if these NPCs spawned in the same spot and followed the same patrol routes each time, because at least then I could set traps for them before starting the core meltdown.
Is it the guard you see first on his back when you climb out of the tunnel after the hack? Maybe, to make the contract more fair, it should be remade with him. But that would rule out any solution that manages to catch Knowles outside.
Excuse my poor wording, I meant if he is the guard who’s back faces 47 when we exit the tunnel after the hack into the room where the chloroform flask is.
Ah, no, I’ve only seen Huiqing Wen spawn in the analysis office. Though I’ve seen one of the others in @WINNODD’s contract spawn in that spot in Tier 3, as well as up in Tier 1. That’s the problem with the patrolling guards after hacking the data core - complete unpredictability. It was the same problem I originally had with Knowles, but at least I can lure him to the roof with Royce and handle him out there.
Just played @Kevin_rudd’s Sniper Assassin: Radio Tower and It’s A Trap! contracts. Still haven’t quite managed to get SA on the radio tower mission. It seems really inconsistent whether or not the guy on the right will both fall into the water and not get spotted doing, and I still have not figured out how to hide the guy all the way on the left. It’s A Trap, though, is a really fun little gimmick contract, and very satisfying to make use of proximity/tripwire explosives without worrying about collateral damage.
Wow I didn’t imagine someone SAed it so soon. It’s more of a test contract without many thoughts ahead so I haven’t grind it myself yet. 45 minutes maybe proved how horrible this contract is.
If he would at least walked in the opposite direction you could have attempted to snipe him.
